Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first to speak up was aging Journalist-Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, 71. Defending a Cézanne-like blue and purple canvas called Female Nude, done by Russian Painter Robert Falk in 1922, which Art Critic Khrushchev had derided, Ehrenburg said: "You and I, Nikita Sergeevich, are getting on and haven't got much time left. But Falk's painting will live as long as there are lovers of beauty." Next, Abstract Sculptor Ernst Neizvesnty, whose work also had been attacked by Nikita, took the floor. "You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said...
...great artists, the problem is not one of serving, in Cowan's words, "with equal effectiveness as an artist and propagandist." Rather, it is one of seeking points of contact, empathy, and pedestrian, and thereby transform at the man situation--be it religious, social, political, or whatever--that permit the artist to transcend the mundane and depestrian, and thereby transform at the level of artistic expression the very human situation that concerns him. In creating this transformation, the artist can do no other than to propagate, project or proclaim something. What else...
...temptation to become a propagandist must seem overwhelming to Baldwin, especially since few people can write so articulately as he about the complications of race. But it would be a shame to see his are compromised to a political necessity...
...plot by "monopoly capitalists" to perpetuate the enslavement of the working class and by "neocolonialists" to exploit the newly independent nations. But last week Moscow more openly recognized the Common Market for what it is: a grave threat to Communism. With Nikita Khrushchev smiling benevolently near by, Propagandist Leonid Ilyichev proclaimed from a Moscow platform that "integrated Europe" merely disguises the old capitalist rivalries: 'It represents a new tangle of acute antagonism between its members. It is one of the new aggressive and anti-popular unions which are aimed against the socialist camp...
Died. George Sylvester Viereck, 77, prim and cocky German propagandist in two world wars, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen who turned to poetry and journalism, worshiped strong men and machines, drew fire for editing the Fatherland magazine for German-Americans in the World War I era, and in World War II was sent to prison for almost four years on conviction of failing to register as an agent on the payroll of Germany to distribute propaganda through U.S. mails; of a stroke; in Hoi-yoke, Mass...